The East-West dichotomy

by Thorsten Pattberg

Preface

"The East-West dichotomy is a philosophical concept of ancient origin claiming that the two cultural hemispheres, East and West, developed diametrically opposed, one from the particular to the universal and the other from the universal to the particular; the East is more inductive while the West is more deductive. Together they form an equilibrium..."

—Thorsten Pattberg

Table of contents

• Chapter 1: History
• Chapter 2: Induction and deduction
• Chapter 3: The dichotomy with Asia-centrism
• Chapter 4: Equilibrium
• Chapter 5: Demography
• Chapter 6: Migration
• Chapter 7: Cultural effects of the dichotomy
• Chapter 8: Two successful models
• Chapter 9: Two incommensurable realities
• Chapter 10: The theory of power and to whom it belongs
• Chapter 11: The problem of standard
• Chapter 12: A loveless Darwinian desert
• Chapter 13: The psychology of communion
• Chapter 14: Cultural evolution
• Chapter 15: A Copernican revolution
• Chapter 16: The problem with Nature
• Chapter 17: Truths and values
• Chapter 18: Ideology
• Chapter 19: Gender
• Chapter 20: The dialectics of dichotomy
• Chapter 21: Problems with the dichotomy
• Chapter 22: The future of the dichotomy
• Chapter 23: The author
• Chapter 24: References